VENICE – «Now we can say it: from a technical point of view the bus massacre of October 3rd Mestre it was not a tragic fatality.” Speaking is the Venetian lawyer Silvia Trevisan, of the Scibilia firm, civil plaintiff lawyer for the German Nico Volkman and his wife. The two, who were seriously injured in the crash, had above all lost Charlotte that day, their daughter who was just one and a half years old. «There are aspects of negligence that we will now have to delve into – continues the lawyer – The prosecutor’s consultant Placido Migliorina identifies, moreover, a determining cause in the absence of guardrails at that point. Now we know, I repeat, that it was not a tragic fatality and that what happened was not attributable to a moment of distraction on the part of the driver.”
The Giesse group which assists two Ukrainian families from Kherson and three from Donbass also expressed its opinion on the outcome of the assessments and on the statements of the prosecutor Bruno Cherchi. «We listened carefully to the words of the chief prosecutor Bruno Cherchi – explains the head of Giesse Massimo Gottardo – In the event that the mechanical breakages of the pin and the joint were confirmed within the system that connects the steering to the wheels, a further proof of the responsibility of the company that owns the vehicle which, on a civil law level, must also be held accountable for construction defects and maintenance defects. Another matter concerns the guardrail on which it will be up to the Prosecutor’s Office to evaluate any criminal liability. Certainly, these advance reports from the prosecutor demonstrate the painstaking work carried out by the investigators in a situation made complicated by the condition of the vehicle which fell from a bridge several meters high and then caught fire”.
